Welcome to the first series of the QUEER AS podcast where we’re yarning with queer Indigenous artists and creative practitioners about their work across the public imaginary.

On today's show, we are joined by the magnificent Jazz Money. Jazz is a Wiradjuri poet and artist producing works that encompass installation, performance, film and print. Their writing and art has been presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Jazz has written two award-winning poetry collections how to make a basket (2021) and mark the dawn (2024), and the children’s book The Frog’s First Song (2025) illustrated by Jason Phu. Trained as a filmmaker, Jazz’s first feature film WINHANGANHA (2023) was commissioned by the NFSA.

Find out more about Jazz on their website: https://www.jazz.money/

For a full transcript of this episode, and links to artists and works discussed, visit: https://queer-as.org/a-podcast/jazz-money/

QUEER AS is part of the Saving Lives research program that recalls and centres the power of queer Indigenous artistic thinking and creativity. This anticolonial podcast is sponsored by the Australian Research Council and in partnership with IndigenousX and the Centre for Global Indigenous Futures.

QUEER AS is hosted by Wiradjuri trans/non-binary creative artist and Professor of Critical Indigenous Studies Sandy O'Sullivan, with settler trans/non-binary researcher, musicker, and radio maker Dr Han Reardon-Smith. Theme music is also by Sandy and Han, and audio editing and podcast production is by Han. Cover art is by Wiradjuri trans/non-binary artist Dylan Barnes.